A Quote by Alexander Pope
No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Rather than admit a mistake, nations have gone to war, families have separated, and good people have sacrificed everything dear to them. Admitting that you were wrong is just another way of saying that you are wiser today than yesterday.
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run
ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.
There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who should be hard working, admit their mistakes - and we made a lot of mistakes - make an honest self-critic but change what we did wrong. What did we do wrong? We built a state which is big, which is corrupted, which is a state which should radically change. What is Mr Tsipras saying - keep it as it is, so everything that is old belongs to him.
I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all--it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.
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